Installing El Cap, even as a fresh install, on a Mac with a rotational hard drive (ie non-SSD) will slow it down noticeably. I’d install an SSD and then upgrade to El Cap.
Regards Sam <http://www.facebook.com/macambulance> <http://www.twitter.com/macambulance> <http://uk.linkedin.com/in/macambulance/> MacAmbulance Ltd. Providing Affordable Mac/PC Support and Web Development Sam Mullen ACMT +44 (0)7747778022 [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> www.macambulance.co.uk <http://www.macambulance.co.uk/> MacAmbulance Ltd. is a registered company in England & Wales, registration number 8466597 This email is intended solely for the addressed recipients and may contain privileged or confidential information. If you have received this email in error please notify the sender and delete the email immediately. > On 17 Mar 2016, at 19:18, Adam Pymble <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi all > > We've been donated an older iMac, but it's rather slow with Yosemite and all > the previous owners stuff on there. > > I rather hoped that a full wipe and fresh install of El Cap would help? > > Also, I realise that'll mean I lose Pages etc as they came pre installed and > my kind donator has long since lost all disks. Is there anyway I can take > those off and reinstall? > > If not, Libre Office it is but the children know Pages well so.... > > Thanks folks > > Adam > > > > Sent on the move. > Apologies for any typos and brevity. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Sussex Mac User Group" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/smug. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Sussex Mac User Group" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/smug. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
